More than 30 people face charges after collision between two trains that killed 57 people in February 2023
A long-awaited trial has opened over Greece’s worst train tragedy, which killed 57 people in 2023, leaving the entire country in shock.
Thirty-six people face charges and over 350 witnesses are due to be heard at the trial that opened in the central city of Larissa, near where a freight train and a passenger train collided on 28 February 2023.
Among those to testify are survivors and family members of the victims, some of whom are believed to have burned to death after surviving the initial collision. Most of the dead were students returning from a carnival weekend.
Before the trial opened, Pavlos Aslanidis, whose 26-year-old son Dimitris died in the accident, and who heads the Association of Victims’ Families, told reporters: “This trial is starting with great delay …what we want is exemplary punishment of those responsible.”
